Masayuki Akimoto
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Masayuki Akimoto (秋元正行) is a Japanese speedcuber. He is a current board member of the WCA. He also served as the chairman of the JRCA (Japan Rubik's Cube Association) from its foundation through 2011.
In the 1980s Masayuki Akimoto was fifth in the first national tournament in Japan, and the forth in the second tournament. At the first tournament he states that his method was "very primitive (average about 50 sec?)" but he then developed an original corners-first method bringing his times down to about 27-28 seconds.[1]
He began cubing again in the early 2000s after not touching a Rubik's Cube for "two or three years around 1997-2000". He attended the World Rubik's Games Championship 2003 and won the championship for 4x4 and 5x5.[2]
He invented the Columns First method for Big cubes in the 1980s, which he used to win the 4x4 and 5x5 Speedsolve at the World Championship.
Achievements
| World Titles | ||
| Preceded by None |
4x4 Speedsolve World Champion 2003 |
Succeeded by Yuki Hayashi 2005 |
| Preceded by None |
5x5 Speedsolve World Champion 2003 |
Succeeded by Frank Morris 2005 |
| Preceded by None |
2x2 Speedsolve World Champion 2005 |
Succeeded by Łukasz Ciałoń 2007 |
External links
- Masayuki Akimoto new WCA board member, March 24, 2006
- Rokumentai, Masayuki Akimoto's cubing website c. 2009 at the Internet Archive
